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- You'll start your day with a brief classroom session covering track dynamics, safety, and tips on driving a supercar like the GT-R
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The GT-R is powered by a 3.8 liter twin turbocharged V6 engine that generates 530 horsepower and is matched with the world's most sophisticated all wheel drive system.
Your day at the track will start with a technical briefing where your professional instructor will go over racing tips, proper driving position, steering techniques, braking and acceleration with powerful vehicles like the Nissan GT-R. You will also learn how to find the optimum racing lines on the course.
Next you'll be taken on 2 discovery laps riding as a passenger in a Porsche Cayenne with a professional driver showing you how to optimize your laps on the track.
Then you'll get behind the wheel of the Nissan GT-R and unleash on the Auto Club Speedway Exotics Road Course.
Auto Club Speedway Exotics Road Course: The Exotics Road Courseis located at the Auto Club Speedway, a track where on any given weekend you may find many of the world's fastest drivers. This 1.2 mile course is fast, fun, and exciting! With 8 turns and an 1600 foot high speed straight-away, this is the perfect track to experience the power and handling of the Nissan GT-R.
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- Helmets will be provided
- Participants must be 18 years of age and possess a valid driver's license
- Insurance is included in the cost of the experience
- Participants will be required to sign a liability waiver upon arrival at the track
- All vehicles are equipped with on-board video systems to capture your driving experience, which can be purchased at the track for $79
DurationExperience lasts approximately 2-3 hours.
Maximum Participants1 per car.
SpectatorsWe encourage you to bring family and friends to share the experience! Don't forget to bring a camera!
Weather DependentGenerally this experience will run rain or shine. The vehicles are equipped with safety systems to handle driving in any condition. In the event extreme weather conditions force us to cancel the session, your experience provider will reschedule your experience with you.
What To WearComfortable clothing and closed toed shoes, tennis shoes are recommended.
Booking InformationFor this experience, we recommend booking at least 15 days in advance.
Cancellation PolicyPrior to scheduling/booking a date for this experience, Cloud 9's standard return and exchange policy shall apply. Once you have scheduled a date and received a booking confirmation, no exchanges are allowed. However, you may reschedule your experience up to 15 days prior to your booked date.
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What happens if it rains?
Generally this experience will run rain or shine. The vehicles are equipped with safety systems to handle driving in any condition. In the event extreme weather conditions force us to cancel the session, your experience provider will reschedule your experience with you.
What are the requirements to drive?
Drivers must have a valid driver's license and be at least 18 years old.
Do I need to know how to drive a manual transmission?
No. The vehicles are all Paddle Shift. They can all be driven in Automatic.
Is there a height or weight restriction?
Yes, please contact us if the participant weighs over 260 pounds or is 6'3" tall. We will advise you on what car to choose.
Is an international drivers license acceptable?
Yes. A valid drivers license issued by a government agency is acceptable.
Do I need any previous racing experience?
Absolutely not! This driving experience is open to anyone! No matter what your skills are behind the wheel, you can choose to go for a 5, 10 even 30 laps experience! You will of course follow the technical briefings and participate in the discovery laps with an instructor before you drive. Also you will always be accompanied by our professional driving instructor on your side. So relax and enjoy!
I am a professional race car driver, can I drive alone?
No, but we will make sure the professional driving instructors are aware of the fact so they give you more flexibility on the track.
What can I expect when I get to the track?
Prior to driving on the track, all racing participants are provided with detailed driving instruction in a classroom environment as well as 2 discovery laps in a Porsche Cayenne GTS done by a personal driving instructor. The participants are then introduced to their personal driving instructor who sits in the passenger seat while the driving experience begins. The instructor ensures that the drivers take full advantage of these powerful exotic vehicles, while operating in a safe environment. After your experience, you will receive a graduate certificate.
What is the technical briefing all about?
No matter what level of driving experience you have, it is required that you attend the technical briefing. In this briefing the professional instructors will communicate their direction and the mandatory driving and racing tips to use the sport cars safely. +Proper driving position +Steering technique +Car particularities-power-gearbox specifics +Mass transfers +Proper racing lines +Breaking and acceleration with powerful cars
Can I come with friends and family?
Guests are welcome. Your friends and family will be able to access the track (within the secured areas), take videos and pictures with panoramic views. Children are allowed. However it is recommend not to bring children under 24 months for obvious reasons of noise and security. Pets are not allowed on the tracks for security reasons unless that pet proves to provide health and/or physical aide.
How long should I plan for the whole experience?
Plan for a minimum of 2 hours. Plan for half a day if you are driving for more than 15 laps.
Can we buy photos or a DVD of our experience?
Professional photos are not available, however there is an in-car video available for purchase for $79.
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Derbyshire chamber of commerce's information chief has welcomed the launch of an Ofgem inquiry into the activities of the Big Six energy companies.
Chris Hobson, Head of Information and Representation at the Chamber of Commerce for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, said: "This inquiry is welcome. Member businesses repeatedly tell us that their number one concern is energy cost and security.
"The East Midlands is the UK's manufacturing heartland and is a significant driver in the rebalancing of the economy. As such, it's vitally important that businesses have full confidence in the domestic energy market, which must deliver greater clarity and transparency on costs."
The chamber has established a 'High Energy User Group' representing energy-intensive industrial sectors, which meets for the first time on April 1.
The Group's main aim will be to ensure that energy does not contribute further to the rising cost of doing business in the UK.
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Ape rights and the myth of animal equality.
Should apes be treated like people?
Under a resolution headed for passage in the Spanish parliament, respecting the personal rights of "our non-human brothers" won't just be a good idea. It'll be the law.
The resolution, approved last week by a parliamentary committee with broad support, urges the government to implement the agenda of the Great Ape Project, an organization whose founding declaration says apes "may not be killed" or "arbitrarily deprived of their liberty." No more routine confinement. According to Reuters, the proposal would commit the government to ending involuntary use of apes in circuses, TV ads, and dangerous experiments.
Proponents hail the resolution as the first crack in the "species barrier." Peter Singer, the philosopher who co-founded GAP, puts it this way: "There is no sound moral reason why possession of basic rights should be limited to members of a particular species." If aliens or monkeys are shown to have moral or intellectual abilities similar to ours, we should treat them like people.
He's right. To borrow Martin Luther King's rule, you should be judged by what's inside you, not by what's on the surface.
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If the idea of treating chimps like people freaks you out, join the club. Creationists have been fighting this battle for a long time. They realized long ago that evolution threatened humanity's special status. Maybe you thought all this evolution stuff was just about the past. Surprise! Once you've admitted chimps are your relatives, you have to think about treating them that way. That's why, when the Spanish proposal won approval last week, GAP's leader in Spain called it a victory for "our evolutionary comrades."
Opponents view the resolution as egalitarian extremism. Spain's conservative party frets that it would grant animals the same rights as people. Spanish newspapers and citizens complain that ape rights are distracting lawmakers from human problems. Wesley Smith, my favorite anti-animal-rights blogger, sees the resolution as the first step in a campaign to "elevate all mammals to moral equality with humans." Ultimately, Smith warns, "Animal rights activists believe a rat, is a pig, is a dog, is a boy."
You can certainly find that theme in some quarters. GAP calls humans, chimps, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans "members of the community of equals," and Singer holds out the possibility that GAP "may pave the way for the extension of rights to all primates, or all mammals, or all animals." But the arguments GAP has deployed in Spain don't advance the idea of equality among animals. They destroy it.
GAP is scientifically honest. And science doesn't show mental parity between great apes and human adults. What it shows, as the group's president acknowledges, is that great apes "experience an emotional and intellectual conscience similar to that of human children." Accordingly, the Spanish proposal doesn't treat apes like you or me. It treats them like "humans of limited capacity, such as children or those who are mentally incompetent and are afforded guardians or caretakers to represent their interests."
And that's just the top rung of the inequality ladder. GAP's mission statement says great apes are entitled to rights based on their "morally significant characteristics." It says they
enjoy a rich emotional and cultural existence in which they experience emotions such as fear, anxiety and happiness. They share the intellectual capacity to create and use tools, learn and teach other languages. They remember their past and plan for their future. It is in recognition of these and other morally significant qualities that the Great Ape Project was founded.
Morally significant qualities. Morally significant characteristics. These are appeals to discrimination, not universal equality. Most animals don't have a rich cultural life. They can't make tools. They don't teach languages. Singer even points out that "chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas have long-term relationships, not only between mothers and children, but also between unrelated apes." Special rights for animals in committed relationships! It sounds like a Moral Majority for vegans.
Opening your mind to science-based animal rights doesn't eliminate inequality. It just makes the inequality more scientific. A rat can't match a pig, much less a boy. In fact, as a GAP board member points out, "We are closer genetically to a chimp than a mouse is to a rat."
George Orwell wrote the cruel finale to this tale 63 years ago in Animal Farm: "All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others." That wasn't how the egalitarian uprising in the book was supposed to turn out. It wasn't how the animal rights movement was supposed to turn out, either.


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Summer-House Lit
On not owning a summer home.
We're well into August, and the lucky among us have donned their seersucker and fled to their summer houses on the cape, or the shore, where the outside world doesn't feel like a sauna. Most of us can only dream of such breezy pleasures, and in 2005 Timothy Noah did just that. His original reflections on what it is like not to own a summer home are reprinted below.
I do not own a summer house. The summer house I don't own has not been in the family for three generations. It's a simple, shingled affair, weathered and dear, with fishnets not hanging from the ceiling, duck decoys not arrayed on the shelves, and a large, yellowing map of the area, festooned with incomprehensible nautical markings, not stuck to the wall with pushpins not manufactured in 1954. I love the scent it doesn't give off of mothballs mingled with mold.
We've been not coming here every August for as long as I can remember. The chief activities we don't engage in are swimming, sailing, and canoeing. At night we don't sit around sipping gin and tonics and playing Scrabble or Crazy Eights, or we don't read the old Life magazines piled up behind the davenport that go back to 1947, or we don't dip into the oddball collection of broken-spined books by long-forgotten authors like Irvin S. Cobb and James Gould Cozzens. At the moment I'm not working my way through John Gunther's Inside Asia, published in 1939. You'd be surprised how little has changed!
We don't worry, of course, that the character of the place is not starting to change, what with all the new money not buying up tiny parcels not carved from former dairy farms and not building gaudy new air-conditioned vacation homes that don't extend all the way to the property line. Imagine—air-conditioning here! Open a window, for God's sake! We finally didn't put in window units a few years ago, but only because of the kids. They're also the reason we didn't break down a few years ago and put in a small pool. Though I must admit I've come to prefer not taking my morning laps there to not walking out every morning to the shore and not diving into that bracing cold water.
The nouveau riche new arrivals don't show up every afternoon in the cove or on the lake (I can't decide whether my nonexistent summer house is at the shore or in the mountains) in their loud Lycra wet suits and their god-awful noisy jet skis, and they don't spoil the serenity for everybody else. And the shops not popping up in the town to not cater to the new crowd's needs—overpriced sportswear, sushi, plasma TVs—I don't find myself wandering down that way less and less. I have a good mind to not write a letter to the editor of The Beachcomber. Don't give me good old Doc Brinkman's Five and Dime any day (though he's not starting to hint that he may sell the place). He still makes the best strawberry ice cream I've never tasted.
Now Labor Day's coming. I'll not shut the house up for winter, and not drain and cover up the pool, and not remind the caretaker to not keep an eye on the place until June, when we don't start returning on weekends. What a lovely, languid ritual it is that I don't engage in. I can't understand why everyone doesn't not have a summer place. Just like the one I don't have.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top technology adviser to President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that a team of experts trying to fix the website used to sign up for health insurance is making progress.
"We have much work still to do, but are making progress at a growing rate," said Todd Park, the chief technology officer at the White House, in written testimony to the House of Representatives' Oversight Committee.
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Ok, I don't know much Greek yet. None, really, unless you count a couple words "knowing Greek". Anyway, so I'm running into a problem. I want to form a certain phrase in Greek coherently, but I get the impression that I'm mixing and matching things in a very embarrassing way. What I want to say is something along the lines of "discerning via what seems reasonable" or "discerning through what seems reasonable" or some similar variation of that. The only word I have to use is eulogon or to eulogon in forming the phrase. A few ideas I've pieced together are...1) diakrino meso tis to eulogon2) diakrino to dromo eulogon...or some variation of one of those. The term diakrino isn't absolutely necessary, but if I understand it correctly, I'd rather stick with it if I can. Thoughts?
SolEX01, I hate to say this, but I'm evne more confused now! Thank you, though, I will try to come back and reread what you wrote and understand more fully.
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Joseph P. Smith, 89
Joseph P. Smith, 89, of West Reach Drive, Jamestown, died Aug. 25, 2010, at South County Hospital. He was the husband of the late Norma G. Smith. They had been married for 60 years.
Born in Providence, he was the son of the late Joseph F. Smith and Catherine (Rigney) Smith. Mr. Smith was a communicant of St. Mark Church. He served as an officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine during WWII. Mr. Smith was vice-president and general manager for the Providence Washington Insurance Company, retiring in 1976 after 30 years of service. He was also a former director of its life insurance company and former director of Underwriters Salvage Company of Chicago.
Mr. Smith was a past member of the Union League Club of Chicago, the Turks Head Club of Providence, the Knights of Columbus in Providence and Atlanta, Ga., and a past member of the Democratic Town Committee and the Water Commission, both of Jamestown.
He is survived by five sons: Joseph P. Smith Jr. of Royal Palm Beach, Fla., Raymond P. Smith, William F. Smith, Lawrence J. Smith and Richard J. Smith, all of Jamestown; and eight daughters, Susan S. Plante of Wakefi eld, Marie (Tina) C. Kamercia of Waterford, Conn., Nancy L. Gomes, Regina A. Ford, Patricia M. Romano, Norma C. Ibarlucea, Beth E. Smith and Maureen F. Rotondo, all of Jamestown; 30 grandchildren and 21 greatgrandchildren. Mr. Smith was the father of the late Michael J. Smith, and the brother of the late Paul J. Smith, Rosemarie Swaney and Marie Smith.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held Monday, Aug. 30, in St. Mark Church in Jamestown. Burial was private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. For information and condolences, visit www.FaganQuinnFuneral- Home.com.


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Providers lack proper resources for health education: study
Language barriers remain the biggest obstacle to serving culturally diverse patient populations, researchers say. Almost half of the healthcare providers surveyed for a recent study told researchers from HealthEd Academy that they lack access to patient-education materials in appropriate languages. Chinese-language and Spanish/Spanish Creole materials seemed to be in shortest supply, with each garnering most-needed status by 18% of respondents.
The survey of 192 healthcare extenders (any Non-MD HCP) was conducted in late 2012. The aim was to gauge the pulse of education for culturally diverse patients. Findings have been published in the report, "Engaging Patients from Multicultural Backgrounds: providing culturally competent care in a diverse society," released Monday.
Findings come on the heels of a previous HealthEd study that showed most health educators rely primarily on paper-based education when talking with patients, which has implications for pharma marketers providing such materials through digital means. The new report also has important ramifications.
Researchers say that providing sound and accessible education to diverse patient groups is of growing importance due to the convergence of three factors: changing demographics, a disparate healthcare system and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
This leaves HCEs at the frontlines, often with very little support. "They're an overlooked group, but they're the group that interacts the most with patients," said Katherine Margolis, PhD, director, health behavior strategy and research, HealthEd. "Healthcare Extenders often have a lot of knowledge, and a lot of things they want to be doing, but a lot of time they lack the resources. [This report shows] that they're raising their hand and asking for help."
Respondents (29%) cited language barriers and lack of understanding of cultural beliefs as the primary challenges to effective communication with culturally diverse patient groups. Those two challenges, which handicap an already bereft group, can be costly: patients with limited proficiency in English are also less adherent to treatments, less satisfied with their care and more likely to be confused with their treatment plan, according to HealthEd.
To eliminate that confusion, HealthEd Academy recommends trying to bring patients into the fold when developing materials. They note that one in three healthcare extenders develops his or her own patient-education materials (42% do their own translation into other languages). That is an important first step, but they typically involve other HCPs to develop these materials, as more than half say they "seldom or never involve patients, community stakeholders, or care partners."
Print too has shown prevalence among culturally diverse groups. Nearly 30% of HCEs polled said "they do not use technology or social to engage patients—or they do not see the benefit in doing so," and most patient education continues to come in the form of print (85%) and in-person (88%).
But Margolis told MM&M that a one-size-fits-all solution remains unlikely: "It's going to be a multi-channel approach. It depends on your population. It's really a matter of knowing how they want to be contacted."
Chinese and Spanish Creole were the most requested language for new education materials. While the report suggests that expanding materials to other languages is vital for better communication, there needs to be a consulting team in place from the start, says Margolis: "It's a matter of forming a panel that they can consult with and run their opinion by, especially if they're developing their own materials."
For those who need help tailoring their own materials, the report provides a tool kit with the following framework: learn more about your audience, plan ahead for development, involve patients in the process, expand resources to multiple languages and seek feedback at each stage.


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I think you have become a disgrace Conquer club..Ruined a once great game for money, How can we who do not pay to play compete FAIRLY against those who do pay to play.
The correct approach should have been for payers to play each other and non payers to play each other. But obviously you don't see fairness as a quality in this money orientated site.


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Fast for Climate Justice
Now a month into their hunger strike, activists are hoping for serious commitment from the delegates in Copenhagen.
When Our Leaders Fail to Lead
We have to make them. What David Korten learned from his experiences during the Vietnam War.
Lessons from an Economic Hit Man
Editorial intern Ashlee Green on what she learned from meeting author John Perkins.
One More Thing Seattle's WTO Shutdown Taught the World
Among the many ripple effects of the successful shutdown of the WTO in Seattle in 1999 is one that few know about. The organizing that went into the direct action, marches, media center, and forums inspired the organizers of the World Social Forums, which have become some of the world's most important centers of people power.
Veteran Fasts for Peace
Concerned for the mental health of soldiers, Thomas Mahany wrote a letter asking President Obama to "deal with the cause, not just the effect" of war's trauma by bringing troops home.
A Green, Adolescent Sacrifice
From the climate action blog: Is a driver's license imperatively necessary as a student?
People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall
Some say it was Ronald Reagan's toughness that forced down the wall. But detente between East and West and grassroots people's movements deserve the credit.
Scoring Transit and Walkability
Walk Score, a website that ranks the walkability of neighborhoods, now includes public transit in its rankings. Realtors say a good Walk Score rating adds major value to property listings.
Relieving Global Fever
Editorial Intern Keeley Harding is energized for climate action with the 2009 Bioneers Conference, 350.org, and the YES! Magazine climate issue.
Inside the YES! Worm Bin
From the climate action blog: The YES! office benefits from the composting action of many thousands of now-famous worms.
The Economics of Peace
On October 19, I spoke to the Praxis Peace Institute's Economics of Peace Conference in Sonoma, California. You can read my remarks here.
Let's play "Who's Got the Lowest Power Bill"
From the Climate Action Blog: YES! Magazine's fulfillment assistant Jackie Taylor makes saving the planet her favorite game.
Keeping Warm without Warming the Globe
Media and Outreach intern Ariel Kazunas on winter-proofing for a more climate-happy home.
The YES! Garden
Here's a peek at some of the actions we are taking here at the YES! office in Bainbridge Island, Washington, from individual choices to decisions that affect the whole publication.
A More Green and Connected Life
From the YES! climate blog: Education outreach intern Alysa Austin defies rain, wind, and snow as she bikes her way toward a more connected life.
The 10 Step Diet
When Development Manager Jess Lind-Diamond moved from a downtown apartment to a farmhouse, she developed a new relationship to food.
Overcoming Historical Trauma
Heather Purser reflects on the legacy that years of extermination and assimilation have had in modern Native communities.
Senate Apology to Native People—A Good First Step
The apology to Native people passed by the Senate last week is a step towards reconciliation. But on this Columbus Day, let's be clear that an apology must be followed by action.
Obama's Unusual Nobel Peace Prize Just Right for Unusual Times
There's little time left to take on nuclear proliferation and climate chaos. Can the Nobel Peace Prize help President Obama to step up to these threats?
New Paper for YES! Magazine
For the next two weeks, we will show you some of the climate actions we are taking here at the YES! office in Bainbridge Island, Washington, from individual choices to decisions that affect the whole publication.


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Poor imitation: Femme Fatale could be fatal
With thousands of people in the world suffering from constipation, "piece of shit" is not a phrase to be used loosely; but after wasting two hours of my life watching Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale, I'm so furious it will take me a little time to regain the subtleties of the critical lexicon.
De Palma has made a handful of decent movies in his 30-plus-year career, but this is the third in a row (after Snake Eyes and Mission to Mars) to have no redeeming cinematic value. Even some of his better work is often annoying because of his obsession with imitating Hitchcock. Femme Fatale is a movie Hitchcock might have made if he'd been a cheesy softcore pornographer.
It opens on a television screen showing one of the great femmes fatales of all time, Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity. As the camera pulls back, we see French subtitles on the screen. and the focus gradually shifts to the person watching: a near-naked blonde named Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos).
If De Palma were smart, he would have shifted focus the other way and let us watch Double Indemnity for two hours. If you're smart when you have to choose between the two of them in the video store... well, you'll know what to do.
A man (Eriq Ebouaney) enters the room, makes Laure get dressed, and rattles off a bunch of boring details about the heist they're about to pull. To be sure he's got her attention, he gives her one of the phoniest-looking slaps in film history.
They're at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival (the only way De Palma can get in is with a camera), where a gorgeous model (Rie Rasmussen) is wearing over $10 million worth of diamonds. Laure whispers in her ear, and they meet in the ladies' room, which Laure clears out by caressing the only other occupant. Then comes the first scene gay women and straight men are waiting for (no prize for guessing which group De Palma is pandering to), where the women make out in a stall. Laure removes the model's jewelry, including a diamond-studded, all-revealing, serpentine "top," and drops it on the floor where her accomplice replaces it with imitations.
Laure gets away with the loot, leaving several angry confederates behind. But that's just the beginning. She stumbles into the identity of Lily, a suicidal doppelganger, and hops a plane to America where she sits next to politician Bruce Watts (Peter Coyote). Seven years later they return to France as man and wife. He's the new U.S. ambassador, and she's paranoid about having her picture taken (as if a politician's wife can avoid it).
Femme Fatale is the kind of movie where people do the strangest things to advance the plot, not because any human being who ever lived might possibly do those things in a million years. Antonio Banderas plays Nicolas Bardo, a reluctant paparazzo who gets a photo of Laure, then hooks up with her as she improvises a complex plot on the spur of the moment. She also jeopardizes her own scheme by getting drunk in a club full of rough biker types and luring one of them into a private room where she does a strip to turn him and Nicolas on so they'll fight over her.
Most of the things that are surprising in this movie are surprising because they make no sense. I won't go into the twisty finale except to say De Palma shouldn't have gone into it either. It's probably intended to make you go back and see the movie again, but I think you'll agree once is more than enough.
Hitchcock fans can pass the time by noting what De Palma steals from each of his films, including Vertigo, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Rear Window. Ryuichi Sakamoto's score has some nice faux-Bernard Herrmann riffs.
For Banderas to have this as a follow-up to Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever is the sign of a career in trouble, if not in crisis. Romijn-Stamos can hope her supporting role in X-Men 2 will erase the memory of the worst lead performance by a model since Cindy Crawford in Fair Game. (At least Crawford didn't have to say, "You don't have to lick my ass, just f*** me" or "This world is hell and you're nothing but a f***in' patsy.")
There's some subtitled French dialogue, too. I hope Warner Bros. is properly embarrassed by the title that says, "The bitche double-crossed us." Even bargain-basement Hong Kong action movies have gotten better than that.
One of the mysteries of the industry is how De Palma continues to work when better filmmakers fall by the wayside. He's lost sight of the difference between creating a mystery and just confusing people.
In one scene Nicolas is interrogated by Police Inspector Serra (Que Sera Serra?), who tells him, "I'm kind of a mystery buff myself, and you know what kind of mystery this is?"
Yes, I wanted to yell at the screen: a bad one!


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To train your cat to scratch acceptable objects, sprinkle catnip and a few food treats on a sisal-wrapped scratching post, a corrugated cardboard scratcher or even a non-treated fireplace log. Place it next to the object you wish to protect.read more
Is your older cat in need of a new diet? Take note of your older cat's eating habits at mealtime, and then read on for advice from Dr. Trisha Joyce, a veterinarian at New York City Veterinary Specialists, about when and how to put your cat on an age-appropriate diet.
What Is Senior?
For nutritional purposes, a senior cat is one that is "moving out of old middle age," according to Joyce. She suggests thinking about beginning to transition your pet to a senior formula around the age of 9 or 10. "That's when you begin to be more likely to see medical issues crop up," she says.
"Make a wellness visit to your veterinarian to find out if anything -- like weight gain or kidney problems -- is beginning to become apparent. Senior formulas can help in the early stages of common age-related issues, but you don't want to make the switch prematurely.
What to Look For
Joyce recommends foods that contain ingredients to address each of the above concerns: good fiber sources like beet pulp and FOS (fructooligosaccharide) to improve fat absorption and prevent constipation, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate for joint health, L-Carnitine to help with weight maintenance, antioxidants like vitamin E for a healthy immune system, and optimal levels of quality protein for the aging cat.
She also emphasizes regular veterinary care throughout the lifespan, but especially as your cat gets into its senior years. "Unlike with a dog, where you have opportunities to notice when it's slowing down, cats don't clue you in that anything is wrong until they're much sicker," says Joyce. "Cats should be having annual blood work from the age of 8 or 9. You can identify problems as they come up, and manage them with something like a senior formula before they get serious."
She cautions that cats with serious medical conditions may begin to need prescription diets, like those for kidney or bowel disease, and that pet owners should consult their veterinarians before making any dietary changes.
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Kirti says: Would you ingest or use a pruocdt that was meant for an animal on yourself? Of course not. If you're cat is losing hair just because she's old, then leave her alone. However, if the loss of hair is due to a medical problem, then take her to the vet. The older the animal gets, the more frequent her medical check ups should be.
Fouad says: if she is an outdoor cat take her iidsne keep her away from the dog comb her fur every week check for flees give her a bath with a damp towel and if their is flees buy a spray . my cat was losing her hair for two reasons she had been adopted from a shelter and was scared from all the dogs barking reason.2 she needed bath P.S she is probably molting.
Deeply says: In answer to your qutieson, no, no, NO! a thousand times NO!Last time she lost her hair, you THINK IT was because she was stressed out because it happened when you got a dog, but it could have been from something else. A common cause of hair loss is from an abscess that may not even be visible. The abscess might resolve itself, but it can also become very serious. Maybe this happened the first time and she was lucky. PLEASE call you vet and ask. Isn't better to be safe than sorry?
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Oh hey, the Oscars are on Sunday night! And congratulations to America's celebrities for enduring another painfully long and arduous awards season. YOU POOR THINGS! Being shuttled from red carpet to red carpet, forced to wear nice clothes, asked the same dumb questions over and over again ("How's it feel to be nominated?") ... it's just such a grind, isn't it? Who has the energy to open ALL those goody bags?
Oscar season (and it is now referred to as a "season" with a straight face, specifically so that Andy Greenwald can make terrible sports analogies) is basically one long stretch of commiseration between stars and entertainment journalists, all of whom play along despite the fact that they know it's dumb and they hate participating and they ALL know that the entertainment industry is a human centipede of inanity deep throating more inanity. I bet 90 percent of all backstage conversations between stars is, "I'm so happy this is almost over," as if they just had to march to Lauenburg with a bayonet jammed between their shoulder blades.
This year's Oscars will be hosted by milquetoast elf puppet Ellen DeGeneres. When you want joke-like objects but don't want ACTUAL humor that might make anyone in the audience uncomfortable, Ellen's your woman. She's just like Jay Leno, only she's too pleasant to earn the mass scorn that Leno has dumped on him with regularity. You know who should host the Oscars? BANE. Fucking Bane should host them. No jokes. No attempt at currying the audience's favor. Just the constant threat of death and hostile takeover.
And what will King Joffrey be presiding over? An Oscar ceremony with the theme of "Heroes," which is just so specific, you know? Finally, protagonists will get the spotlight they've long deserved. I'm excited for next Oscar ceremony theme: COLORS. There are theme weeks at your local nursery school that have more nuance.
Anyway, it's time again to say horrible, awful things about every movie and actor nominated Sunday night. Except 12 Years a Slave because, hoo boy, make a joke about THAT movie and you are playing with knives, my friend. It's your Hater's Guide to the Oscars, so let's get hatin'! Please note that mild spoilers abound.
12 Years A Slave: This movie isn't winning Best Picture. I can guarantee it. And you know why I can guarantee it? Because people are cowards. Schindler's List made over $100 million and has been broadcast on network television unedited and without commercial interruption. Ditto Saving Private Ryan. And every installment of the Saw franchise mints a new fortune. Holy shit, are we fascinated by seeing white people killed. Kill them, torture them, mutilate them, have a white girl assaulted on SVU weekly—WE WILL BE THERE. Can't get enough of it. It's important to let white people know we support them in their time of suffering.
But ask people to watch a movie about slavery? "WHOA HEY THAT SOUNDS LIKE HOMEWORK! And, God, it just sounds so brutal, you know? I much prefer movies about race to congratulate me and my fellow white theatergoers on our broad-mindedness. Let's go watch fucking Crash instead."
Jesus Christ, America. You can at least try to not be so obvious.
(NOTE: I have not watched this movie. I'm no masochist.)
Dallas Buyer's Club: Because I think we can all get behind a movie that teaches us that the doctors who know the MOST are the ones selling unapproved meds down in Mexico. Screw that fancypants doctor you got back home, with his Harvard degree and his license to practice health care in your state. He's just gonna poison you with vaccines and shit! Much better to trust a coke-snorting rodeo clown who just unloaded 500 pounds of Dr. Yucatan's Vitamin G from the back of his Lincoln. That guy ... that guy knows his shit. I bet Jenny McCarthy gave this movie a 50-minute standing ovation. Regular doctors treat you like scum. But your Mexican herbalist? SECRET MAGIC BUTTERFLY CHAMBER.
The Wolf of Wall Street: I liked this movie much more back when it was called Boiler Room, mostly because it was shorter, and because shitbag con artists do not need to be painted in shades of gray.
American Hustle: Awww, it's the sweet story of a guy who rips people off but you should feel bad for him because his wife is a bitch and he only keeps going back to her because she has an insane body! THE POOR BASTARD. If only the Feds would, like, not ask him to do stuff, so he can keep his con money and go fuck his mistress in peace, nah mean?
Every few years, the hottest actors in the world get together and pay themselves to throw a '70s theme party, and American Hustle is one such party. Thankfully, there was so much big hair and loud screaming and quick cutting and WHOA DUDE LED ZEP ON THE SOUNDTRACK RAWK and people ALMOST fucking but not quite that I still haven't realized this movie wasn't all that great! Well done, J-Law and company.
Her: Guys, I think Spike Jonze has a problem with women, because if you ever make a movie where one of the female characters happens to be a bitch, it TOTALLY means you have issues with women. What other possible explanation could there be? I mean, it's not like there are actual women out there who are of questionable character. That's just a male superiorist fantasy construct. God, men are such dicks.
By the way, I do not want to live in a future where people can earn a living wage writing dead-tree letters for other people. Not only is that a completely fabricated movie job (I'm shocked Kate Hudson hasn't done this job in a movie yet), but it suggests a 22nd century hipster-led economy in which such retro boutique businesses are somehow viable, so much so that Joaquin Phoenix is just one of MANY people crafting horseshit notes on old parchment for other bearded assholes. No way that happens. If it does, I'll torch the globe.
Nebraska: This movie was fucking awful. I genuinely hated it. People are so used to Alexander Payne making good movies that they just lied to themselves after walking out of this pile of shit and convinced themselves it was awesome. It was not. It was like visiting relatives you hate in real time. I guarantee you that there were pretentious assholes in New York and L.A. who watched this movie and were like, Oh wow, these people are so REAL. They're REAL Americans, you know? They're so fat and boring and stupid ... and they NEVER comb their hair. That realness speaks to me, because I am a fucking poser. That's how this movie ended up on every top 10 list. How the fuck did American Hustle get a backlash and this movie got off scot free? We choose our backlashes poorly.
If I were from Nebraska, I would find Alexander Payne (who is from Nebraska and clearly thought he was flattering his home state even though he'll never live there again) and piss in his flowerbed. If you liked this movie, you were wrong. I know everyone has a right to an opinion, but not this time. You have no right to like this movie. You are hopelessly deluded, and I will send your brain to be cleansed. Were you aware that there are other movies out there in which things happen? In which time moves forward?
Gravity: Is there some sort of law that any new landmark moviemaking technological achievement must be done in service of a script written by a fucking 14-year-old? I bet it's called Cameron's Law. "Hey guys, let's spend a few years literally inventing a spaceship so that we can film a movie inside a spaceship. Oh, a script? Let the fucking coffee boy go write it. Stick a girl in there somewhere, and put her in a tank top. We've got thrusters to engineer from scratch!"
And how does the astro-debris not hit Sandra Bullock on the second pass? That debris had worse aim than the bad guys in Commando.
Captain Phillips: Hey guys, a few years ago, our entire naval fleet took on a band of four dirt-poor pirates floating around with a hostage in a piece-of-shit lifeboat. And I'm happy to report that, in true underdog fashion, we won! FUCK YEAH! AMERICA DEFIES THE ODDS ONCE AGAIN. All I know is that it's a good thing Captain Phillips was a white dude with a terrible Boston accent (I bet Ben Affleck watched this movie with his pants around his ankles). Because if it had been a movie about a black hostage, OH GEE WHIZ GUYS I DUNNO IF I CAN SIT THROUGH TWO HOURS OF THAT SORT OF THING. You don't have to be all up in my face with the ugliness of history, you know! Let me just read about it instead, and maybe skip the parts where people use guns and stuff.
Philomena: What is this? This came out in a theater? No, it didn't. You're full of shit. Every year, Hollywood has to whip up a fake movie like this one, or The Reader, or Love Field, so that they have enough roles to fill out the Best Actress category. Because in any given year, there are only three open jobs for working Hollywood actresses.
Oh, Harvey Weinstein made this movie? OK, now I get it. Every December, Harvey Weinstein shows up at the door of the Academy with a gun in one hand and the title of some piddly shit indie movie in the other. And PRESTO! Oscar nominations for a movie you will never hear from again.
Matthew McConaghey: He played a Texan! WHAT A FUCKING STRETCH. Just a remarkable transformation from Regular Laconic Texan to Alarmingly Thin Laconic Texan. It might just be the best Texan role McConaghey has ever played, and Lord knows you have choices in that department. Just look at his iMDB profile!
- Mysterious Texan, True Detective (2014)
- Scary Texan, Frailty (2001)
- Horny Texan, Dazed & Confused (1993)
- Homicidal Texan, Killer Joe (2011)
- Brave Texan, Lone Star (1996)
- Guy Literally Named Dallas, Magic Mike (2012)
- Matt Schaub, Untitled ESPN Docudrama (2018)
I couldn't even see the actor anymore. All I could see was the Texas. Just an amazing performance.
Chiwetel Ejiofor: Pfft. He didn't play a Texan! LAME. By the way, it's gotta be fun to spend weeks in the deathly Louisiana heat, playing a role in which you are beaten and hanged and forced to re-live the horrors of the past, only to be told by the media, "Nah, you have no chance of winning. It's THE YEAR OF THE MCCONAISSANCE. Sorry, guy!" God forbid there be any suspense to this Oscar ceremony. No no, please have the media run 50,000 voter polls so that the outcome becomes ironclad. At least Chris Berman only tips picks the DAY of the draft.
Leonardo DiCaprio: I'm gonna be honest: Any time I see Leonardo DiCaprio play a grownup (which happens in every movie now), I just keep waiting for him to sweep his bangs across his face and wear little boy suspenders and start defying his parents. This is my life, Mom! Jeez aloo! I bet he totally was one of those guys who got a beard transplant.
Bruce Dern: Just be an old actor in a major role with an admired director giving you orders and you'll probably get nominated. Your character doesn't even have to TALK. You can just sit there and grunt and people will be fucking DAZZLED. Oh my God, he brings such gravitas to the role! That old man really looked like an old man up there on the screen! And if your character is unlikable, then all the better. In Hollywood, it counts as a legitimately brave act to play someone who isn't perfect. Dern is gonna clean up whenever Gran Torino 2 finally comes out.
God, I hated Nebraska.
Christian Bale: He's just doing De Niro! You shouldn't get any credit for that. De Niro is already in that movie. You don't need him twice. Anytime Bale was feeling off his game, he probably just went up to De Niro and was like, "Hey De Niro, is this De Niro-ey enough?" And then De Niro probably said GRUMBLE GRUMBLE WHERE'S MY PAYCHECK GRUMBLE. And then Bale was probably like, "That's it! That's just the kind of surliness I was looking for! Thanks, bloke!"
Also, Bale gained a lot of weight for this role and blew a disc in the process. As a proponent of spinal health, I beg you: Please don't ever be this stupid. Chances are, if you gain weight to win an Oscar, you're just gonna lose to the asshole who LOST weight. It's not worth ruining your life.
Cate Blanchett: You don't have to believe Dylan Farrow's accusations to know that Woody Allen is a repulsive man and that it has been a decades-long embarrassment to see Hollywood actors fall all over themselves to line up and play whatever stock character Woody has decided to recycle this time around. Is it the flaky shiksa? Is it the nerdy commitment-phobe? Is the not-rich person who is trying to fit in with rich people? No matter which tired archetype Woody decides to drag out of the garage, you can bet there will always be a shitload of ingénues climbing over each other to get to his doorstep. Oh please, Woody! Let me star in your shitty little movie! I'll take no pay! I just want to absorb all your knowledge! Groom me! Train me! Let me be your muse! Your prestige! I need your prestige to keep my blood circulating! And the worst part about being brainwashed by Woody Allen is when he forces you to listen to him play clarinet. Forcing people to pretend to like jazz is its own harrowing criminal act.
By the way, some day, someone will explain to me why men fell over themselves for Mia Farrow back in the '70s. She's white and frail! I must have her!
Amy Adams: Did anyone understand the bathroom scene? Like where she and Bradley Cooper are at that nightclub and she "presents" herself for sex but then changes her mind and is like "We'll fuck when we mean it, OK?!" I dunno, seems like Bradley was REALLY ready to mean it right there. Here's an anonymous Oscar voter talking about Amy Adams:
By the way, Amy had no boobs in that dress. A beautiful dress, but she's flat chested.
I know! How can you act without any tits to stick out at people? Jen Lawrence: Now THERE are some tits with real screen presence. Please note that pretty much every anonymous Oscar voter account ends up sounding this vacuous and self-centered. It's quite a feat. These people should be burned.
Sandra Bullock: Just like a woman to not know how to drive a spaceship.
Meryl Streep: Because I haven't seen enough movies where unhappy white people gather at a family dinner and bitch each other out. Is there single fucking American playwright who grew up in a functional household? Don't hold me hostage for two hours and a brief intermission just so you can get your revenge on Mommy.
And actors can't get enough of this shit! Tell them they get to argue with some other respected actor for 100 minutes straight and they die from pleasure. "I was really intimidated to work with Meryl. I mean, come on: It's Meryl Streep! But then she turned out to be so NICE!" Really? Color me stunned. FACT: All actors are illiterate. When actors tells you they "read the script," that means they had an assistant circle all the lines in their part and read them out loud.
Judi Dench: Again, not a real movie. They just spent $5 million on a really nice trailer. If you attend an actual screening of Philomena, you get a matinee showing of Gosford Park. Close enough!
Jared Leto: Dying? Check. An actor playing transgender? Check. A handful of sassy lines? DING DING DING YOUR RUNAWAY OSCAR WINNER. I love that voters were dazzled by the scene in which Leto dressed like a man. I bet he was so uncomfortable dressing up like a woman, but then he had to stop dressing like a woman and look even MORE uncomfortable! THAT YOUNG MAN HAS GRIT.
I didn't think Leto was that much better than anyone else here, if he was better at all, but this is why the Oscars are dumb. Somehow, the media and the voters congeal their stupidity into one giant blob of groupthink that decides, "It's Leto's time," or that one actor is a RUNAWAY winner over another, as if dying of AIDS on screen made you Secretariat. Barkhad Abdi just spent two hours on screen playing the world's most desperate man. NOT A LOW-MOTOR ACTOR. But sorry Barkhad. Better luck next time JK there won't be a next time because we'll never hire you again the thrill is gone.
Michael Fassbender: Well, look, when you're in every goddamn movie, you're probably gonna be decent in one or two of them.
Barkhad Abdi: Please. You think I'm gonna let a TRUE FRESHMAN win this award? How do I know Abdi isn't a real dead-eyed pirate just playing himself? Let me see how he fares in a terrible romantic comedy before I decide if he has a future in this business.
Bradley Cooper: Oh look, it's a guy named Brad playing an asshole. What a stunning development. Demanding you go by your full name on the marquee doesn't change the fact that you are a Brad, and you suck. No one will believe you when you say to them, "Bro, I just read Infinite Jest and cried A LOT, bro." I know what you do in your spare time, Brad Cooper: You laugh at homeless people and yell at women when they menstruate on your sheets. You're fooling no one. Spencer Hall: "Brad Cooper's always like the slightly dim smart attractive dude who wants you to forget he used to frost his hair."
By the way, it's a measure of how low the bar for excellence is in Hollywood that an unreasonably handsome man like Bradley Cooper can get critical notice simply by curling his hair. OMG HE LET THEM MAKE HIS HAIR SILLY! No ego on that fella!
Jonah Hill: Well, someone has gotten solid mileage out of the whole "fat awkward sidekick in a prestige movie" gig. Now let's see how you fare in a role where you have to have a girlfriend. I bet audiences suddenly don't find you quite as believable. Marty Scorsese won't be casting your fat ass as the head gangster anytime soon.
June Squibb: Oh hey, a sass-talkin' old lady! I've never seen that kind of role before, except in Runaway Bride, and The Proposal, and The Beverly Hillbillies, and Blazing Saddles, and Lake Placid, and Calendar Girls, and Steel Magnolias, and Moonstruck, and Tyler Perry's Madea Drags You To The Preacher!, and every Adam Sandler movie ever made. Oh, but in this movie the sass-talkin' lady is different because the movie is in black and white. Feels realer that way.
Lupita Nyong'o: Run! Run away, Lupita! You don't wanna win. Don't you know that all Best Supporting Actress winners are immediately thrown into a crevasse after they win? Has anyone seen Mo'Nique in the past three years? Where did she go? Is she dead? Did Renée Zellweger fall down a fucking drainpipe? Accepting that award is signing your career's death warrant, especially if you're not a white actress. If you're not a white actress, the Academy says to you, "Welcome! Thank you for coming and being our Tolerance Mascot this year! Have some hot soup! When the show is over, KINDLY GET THE FUCK OUT." You are like a Voltron of five Slumdog Millionaire children. You are the headless veteran who gets a seat next to the first lady at the State of the Union Address. RUN AWAY AND NEVER COME BACK!
Jennifer Lawrence: I got a real problem with Jennifer Lawrence and it's that she always ...
(is grabbed by the Internet)
(is locked in a dungeon 700 feet below ground)
(man in leather mask holding a bamboo cane enters the room)
(is beaten and flayed for nine straight hours)
(released after 60 days without food or light)
How can you not love Jennifer Lawrence? She seems so down to earth, you know? SHE IS THE REAL DEAL AND I WILL BEAT YOU WHILE CRYING IF YOU DISAGREE.
Sally Hawkins: Who is this person? I've never heard of her. NAWT A TRUE MOVIE STAH. Just throw her in the dustbin with Brenda Blethyn, Janet McTeer, Rinko Kikuchi, and Shohreh Aghdashloo. Do they pick these nominees from the fucking phone book?
Julia Roberts: I'll never forget the time she won Denzel Washington's Best Actor Oscar. Good for her! Also, she plays a roaring bitch in every movie! It's like she forgot that she's not Erin Brockovich. How has this woman kept her America's Sweetheart tiara for four decades when she spends every movie hissing at fat people and ex-husbands and random clerks and generally behaving like a sociopath? And you're supposed to love her just because IT'S JULIA! or some shit like that. Well, I don't. I don't like Julia Roberts. She makes forgettable movies and her mouth is big enough for her to swallow an entire birthday cake whole. When she loses her teeth, another row of teeth will push forward, like a goddamn shark. Her laugh is awful. I bet she gets cast as the grandma in Nebraska 2. She walks like someone who spent the '80s playing linebacker for the Raiders.
Gawker's Caity Weaver also reminds you that Julia Roberts once wore a T-shirt ragging on her husband's ex-wife and then told Oprah it was a private matter when Oprah asked about the shirt. Because it's totally normal to broadcast your private matters on a T-shirt.
I fucking hate the Oscars.
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STEVE AYERS is known as "The Ag Guy" in Champaign County, IL. With a master's degree in extension education, he gives live agricultural updates on his local CBS TV affiliate, WCIA Channel 3, during the Friday Morning Show at 5:45 a.m.
"Host Anne Dill and I talk about local, state, national and international ag news," Ayers says.
Off the air he works as farm business management and marketing extension educator for the University of Illinois. Ayers also farms 964 acres west of Champaign in Piatt County.
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How are you staying competitive on your farm?
No-till technology. We started no-tilling in the mid-'80s. Since then we've switched from no-till to strip-till. In the early '90s before strip-tilling, we had two years in five that planting was delayed by excess moisture and cool temperatures. Strip-tilling helps to warm up the soil earlier and give the seed a jump start.
What equipment do you use for that?
We use a 12-row, 30-in. DMI anhydrous rig in the fall in soybean stubble after the soil temperature drops below 50°. The mole knife injects the anhydrous with N-serve into the soil, and covering discs leave the soil black for next spring. The following spring we follow up with our 12-row planter, and the corn goes into the warm, dry soil.
What is the best product you bought for your farm in recent years?
We bought a used Honda Recon, which is a one-person, 4-wd ATV with a little 20-gal. spot sprayer. It works very well in soybean fields and along fence lines. This fall we purchased a new Case IH 2206 corn head that we are quite happy with. It is easy to maintain and adjust.
What's your best advice when buying farm inputs?
You can't always buy the cheapest. One major consideration on a purchase decision relates to the service component. Timing is essential for any operation. If our machine goes down, can we get a replacement to use until repaired? We also take advantage of preseason dealer checkups so the equipment is field ready.
What bugs you about the industry?
My concern is what has happened to pride in workmanship in farm machinery. We spend six figures on a piece of equipment we use five weeks a year, and the individuals on the assembly line could care less about the end user. Despite ISO 9000 and all the other manufacturing quality initiatives, a machine can go out with a belt that's incorrectly installed.
How do you stay up on new farming technologies?
I rely on magazines, the Internet and information we gather at the University of Illinois. Extension is always putting out timely bulletins affecting growers [www.extension.uiuc.edu]. Our Integrated Pest Management Web site [wwww.ipm.uiuc.edu] gives weekly updates on what to watch for during scouting. And Farmdoc [www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu] is a farm business management Web site designed to help farmers with decision making. It gives you access to databases and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to analyze the cost of different investment decisions.
Finally, what is a farmer's biggest indicator of success?
I always say we "attempt" to farm as we control about 10% of our success and the other 90% is out of our hands. Risk management and marketing are now critical as our input costs are ballooning. Field crop scouting is essential during the season. A commitment to lifelong learning is also essential for success.
Field crop scouting is essential during the season. We follow the weekly "University of Illinois Extension Bulletin of Pest Management and Crop Development," so we are aware of the pest, disease and crop development issues to scout for each week as the crop evolves. We dodged the bullet this year with Asian soybean rust, but it is just a question of when and not if it will descend upon us.
Machinery: Case IH 7220 tractor, 2377 Case IH combine, Case IH 900 planter, Great Plains 2010P no-till drill
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I've just returned from a week in New Hampshire, which is why things have been quiet around these here parts.
Most of my friends know at this point, but I think it's safe to make the news public now: I will be moving back to New Hampshire at the end of June. The reasons are many. Even before my father's death in December, I knew I was not particularly happy teaching at the school where I've been teaching this year -- it's not a bad school by any means, but I lack the classroom management skills to be as effective a teacher there as I would like to be. After my father's death it became clear that settling his estate was going to be a long and involved process, and so I began to toy with the idea of moving back to New Hampshire, though I really would like a few more years of easy access to Manhattan... But the more work I, my family members, my friends, my lawyer and accountant, etc. did trying to put some order to all of what my father left behind, the more I realized I just couldn't remain so far away, even if I had wanted to stay at my current job, or I'd be dealing with all the various details of the estate for the next decade. (One day I'll be able to be less vague about all this. For now I'll just say that if I wrote the story of my life as a novel, nobody would publish it, because they would say it was unrealistic and unbelievable.)
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Melba Colleen Hamilton was born July 2, 1930 in Amarillo Texas to Samuel Eugene and Mary Pearl Morris. Melba attended schools in Amarillo through her junior year of high school at Amarillo High. She moved to Borger, Texas and graduated from Borger High School in 1948. She received her secretarial certification from Texas Women's University in Denton.Melba married William Hamilton on April 23, 1951. One year later daughter Becky Lynn was born. In 1953 son William David was born. They were then transferred to Bartlesville, Oklahoma where daughter Mary Kay was born in 1960. Later they returned to Borger where all 3 of her children graduated from Borger High School.Melba was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. She was active in United Methodist Women and a quilters group. She was a true homemaker and very gifted at sewing and various crafts. They lived in Borger until 1979 when Bill was transferred to Denver, Colorado. They retired to Cuchara, Colorado and then moved again in1991 to Kerrville, Texas. After her husband's death in 2008 she remained in Kerrville until 2011. She then moved to Eastland, Texas to be near family.Melba was preceded in death by her Mother and Father, Pearl and Sam Morris, brother Gene Morris, and husband Bill Hamilton.She is survived by her daughter Becky Lynn Henshaw and husband Rod from Des Moines, Iowa,Buzz Hamilton and wife Deborah from Fairfield, Texas and their daughter Darbi Hamilton of The Woodlands, Texas, and youngest daughter Mary Kay Williamson and Husband John from Cisco, Texas and their two sons Samuel of San Angelo, Texas , and Sean of Cisco,Texas. She is also survived by a sister-in-law, Marlene Morris or Amarillo, Texas and many cousins and some very special nieces and nephews.


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Brazil star Hulk has revealed money was a significant factor in his move to Zenit St Petersburg.
The 26-year-old surprised the football world in September by signing for the wealthy Russian outfit and he admitted he was swayed by the financial terms on offer.
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text: 10 Apps You Should Try Immediately January 24, 2014 08:57 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ben Potter AgWeb Social Media and Innovation Editor Email Keep the apps you like and discard the rest Dozens of mobile apps are available to help you run a more efficient, knowledgeable, productive farming operation. But Australian farmer Richard Heath shares an all-too-familiar experience—finding farming apps can be half the challenge. As an example, Heath searched for "farm management" apps in both Google Play (Android) and App Store (iPhone), then shared the top results. "We have 10 games, one farm simulator, a marijuana growing app and what I would consider to be one solitary proper farm management app," he says. Heath channeled his frustrations into a website, www.farmingwithapps.com. Farmers who want to boost their smartphone's productivity can also visit the App Store at www.agweb.com. In the meantime, here are 10 apps to try. They are free unless otherwise noted. 1 Machinery Sizing. Developed by Kansas State University, this app allows farmers to quickly estimate the tractor horsepower that they will need to pull various implements. Certain parameters such as ground and soil conditions, tractor type, pulling speed, working depth and size of the implement are needed to determine the tractor's drawbar and PTO horsepower requirements. 2 RealCalc. Calculate fractions, percentages, unit conversions and much more with this app. It's a must-have digital multi-tool for the shop. 3 YieldCheck. This Precision Planting app is a simple way to calculate and store corn yield estimates and organize them by field. Enter kernel counts for three ears of corn, and the app calculates a bushel yield estimate. 4 Fertilizer Removal by Crop. Select crop and yield goals in this app from Ag PhD to get a rundown of nutrients the crop needs. Save results on the app or e-mail them to yourself or your agronomist. 5 30/30. Struggling with time management? Increase productivity instantly. The 30/30 app lets you set up a to-do list and assign a length of time for each item. Start the timer, and the app will alert you when it's time to move on to the next item on the list. 6 Grain Bin Contents Calculator. Select the grain bin's diameter and height to determine bin capacity. Then, use average distance from the top of the bin to the top of the grain to estimate volume. Add in the test weight of the grain to estimate tonnage. (Price: $5.99 for iPhone; $4.99 for Android) 7 AgDNA. This app offers a broad range of functionality, such as tracking a multitude of in-field activities and in-season progress. It has record-keeping and data-sharing capabilities as well. Users can import additional layers of information such as soil profiles, irrigation and fertilizer applications. 8 Accuweather. With dozens of weather apps, choose one with high ratings. This one provides short- and long-term weather forecasts, plus notifications when the weather's about to get bad in a specified area. 9 Climate Basic. This app from The Climate Corporation allows you to view weather, soil and crop data for each of your fields. Review online tracking and scouting tools to enable better production decisions. Sample the basic version for free, or upgrade to Climate Pro for a per-acre subscription cost. 10 University Extension apps. Check with your state's land-grant university for details. Many of them have excellent mobile resources such as production guides, pest identification and more. Two notable examples include the University of Missouri's ID Weeds app and the University of Wisconsin's IPM Toolkit app. You can e-mail Ben Potter at firstname.lastname@example.com. Coming later this year, AgWeb will launch an innovative app reviewer. For more information, visit www.FarmJournal.com/app_reviews Back to news